Name: The Old Straight Track
Duration: P00H05M09S
Description: The Old Straight Track was inspired by the book of the same name, written by Alfred Watkins. I love history and archaeology and old weird stuff, and found myself wishing we had such evidence of ancient habitation and trackway-making here. We don't. They plowed everything up. The Family Folk Machine, a choir that I work with here in Iowa City, did this song in our 2020 virtual session.

The Old Straight Track

from The Light You Can't See in the Day by Alma Drake

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The Old Straight Track was inspired by the book of the same name, written by Alfred Watkins. I love history and archaeology and old weird stuff, and found myself wishing we had such evidence of ancient habitation and trackway-making here. We don't. They plowed everything up. The Family Folk Machine, a choir that I work with here in Iowa City, did this song in our 2020 virtual session.

lyrics

We got lost in the woods one evening
We got soaked to the skin, we were freezing
But as night - fell down - we started walking
On a path not marked but long traveled

We found the old straight track
It’ll take you back
Back to the second path
From there you can find your way home
Repeat

Through the dolmen trees, cross the valley below
To the top of the ridge, do you see the stone
Standing tall - alone - a long forgotten marker
Of a way nobody remembers anymore

Follow the old straight track . . .

Lost doesn’t mean forsaken
And there’s magic in not knowing the way
Sometimes you have to get lost in the dark
To see the light you can’t see in the day

By the souls of my feet I know this way
I have walked it before with a different face
And I know - that you - will remember walking
By my side, many times, beyond counting

Walking the old straight track . . .

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from The Light You Can't See in the Day, released October 25, 2022
Alma Drake: acoustic guitars, vocal, bg vocal
Christine Moad: bass, bg vocal
Ryan Rumery: drums
Annie Savage: fiddle

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Alma Drake Iowa

Alma Drake (fka Gayla Drake) has been playing and performing music for over 50 years, and writing songs for over 40. They are currently a full-time sound therapy practitioner, but they continue to create and perform music on their own, with several bands, and with the Family Folk Machine choir. ... more

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